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Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity >> Content Detail

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LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES


1	Introduction. Machiavelli, excerpt from The Prince


2	More: excerpt from Utopia Montaigne: Of Cannibals


3	Montaigne: Of Repentance, Of Diversion, Of Conserving the Will


4	Montaigne: excerpt from Of Experience Shakespeare, King Lear


5	Shakespeare: King Lear


6	Shakespeare: King Lear


7	Excerpts from Hobbes: Leviathan


8	Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels, IV


9	Jonathan Swift: (concluded)	First Paper Due (Six Pages)


10	Rousseau: On the Origins of Inequality


11	Rousseau: (concluded)


12	Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey; excerpts from The Prelude


13	Wordsworth: (concluded)


14	Wordsworth: (concluded)


15	Immanuel Kant: excerpt from The Metaphysical Foundation of Morals


16	Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice	Second Paper Due (Six Pages)


17	Jane Austen (continued)


18	Jane Austen (continued)


19	Balzac: Père Goriot


20	Balzac (continued)


21	Balzac (continued)


22	Friedrich Nietzsche, excerpts from The Geneology of Morals


23	Nietzsche, (concluded)


24	George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara


25	George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara


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